Wednesday, February 16, 2011

My life has been so edified by you, the kind readers of this blog. With your sweet comments and e-mails you have given me confidence as a writer, with your excellent book recommendations you've given me many delightful evenings of reading, and with your loyalty you've given me the motivation to continue this discipline of blogging.

I want to thank you and express my sincere gratitude in some tangible way.

I wish I could give one of these to everyone who visits! Sadly I can only gift this giveaway to one person, but my gratitude and prayers (yes, I pray for you each day... mostly not be scandalized by anything I write!) extends to everyone.

I also know that many of you aren't familiar with all of the bloggy accouterments and doodads. Let me give you a rundown of some of the symbols (which will play a part in how you enter this giveaway).

What the buttons mean:

On the right sidebar you should see something that looks like this.

The orange box with the signal symbol on it is called an RSS feed. If you click this (and then click "subscribe" after that), you can read all of the posts from this blog on your computer desktop, in a feed reader (such as Google Reader or Bloglines), or even as a folder in your bookmarks that will auto-update each time there is a new post here.

The envelope icon is an e-mail subscriber. Instead of visiting the blog to see if there has been an update ('cause I post at all hours of the day), you get an e-mail each time there is a new post.

The blue Facebook button is for my page on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, you can "Like" my page on Facebook and receive blog updates there (and also extra pictures, statuses and things that don't make it to the blog).

Finally there is that "Follow with Google Friend Connect" button. If you have a Google account (or even Yahoo) this is another way to stay updated.

Giveaway Rules: There are 3 possible entries for this giveaway.

1. To enter, simply leave a comment answering the question: What is your favorite type of post on City Wife, Country Life?Recipes, stories, marriage posts, photos, earthy crunchy stuff, homeschooling, homesteady stuff... something else? (I'm not doing this to inflate my ego. Seriously! I just want to know which types of posts I should focus more of my attention on in the future).

2. To increase your chance with a second possible entry, leave a comment indicating that you have (or already) subscribed to this blog by RSS feed, Google Friend Connect, or E-mail.

3. For a third possible entry, leave a comment indicating that you have (or already) liked CWCL on Facebook, followed on Twitter, or subscribed on YouTube.

Please leave a separate comment for each entry.

Entries must be received by Tuesday, February 22nd at 11:59pm PST. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.

Good luck, and seriously... thank you!

Oh, and if you need any ideas on how to spend it, I'd highly recommend: this, this, or this.

36 comments:

Oh get outta town! The LOVE story posts of course!! But I look forward to your blog because it is so versatile and I really never know what you're going to come up with next :) Variety is the spice of life!!

61 comments!! Moses! I don't know who started the trend of counting each comment as a separate entry but it makes for great numbers. (Or was that part of the directions? Now I'm too lazy to go back and check...)

Well, this is not exactly an answer to the question but I, too, enjoy the versatility. I like each of the post genres and the very fact that there is something different every day. Don't disqualify me for being honest! I also like the frankness of the blog. Everything is not always Sugarplum Fairy Land, and your writing reflects that, though you also include liberal doses of the former.

And for my second entry, I liked CWCL on fB a long time back (and still do).

WOW! I love the way you write, so how do I narrow down the types of posts I like best? I guess if I have to choose just one, I'd go w/ your marriage posts. The love you have for your DH is so inspiring!

I've done it! I've "subscribed to this blog by RSS feed," which is something I'd never done before because I didn't know how it worked. Well, I STILL don't know how it works - not exactly, anyway - but hey! I'll give a whirl to anything that might get me both an Amazon gift card AND the chance to keep up with my fave blogger!

"How can I ever express the happiness of the marriage that is joined together by the Church, strengthened by an offering, sealed by a blessing, announced by angels and ratified by the Father? ... How wonderful the bond between two believers with a single hope, a single desire, a single observance, a single service! They are both brethren and fellow-servants; there is no separation between them in spirit or flesh; in fact they are truly two in one flesh and where the flesh is one, one is the spirit." Tertullian (Ad Uxorem, II, VIII, 6-8).

“A good wife is Heaven’s last, best gift to man, his angel and minister of graces innumerable, his gem of many virtues; her voice his sweetest music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the sure balsam of his life; her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counselor, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares, and her prayers the ablest advocate of Heaven’s blessing on his head.” - Jeremy Taylor